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Gawker: Continually jumping the snark

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

The New York Times has a piece in Sunday on Gawker, and how it may have “jumped the snark.” It’s a look at some of the turmoil that the site has seen in recent weeks — including the departure of writer Richard Morgan after just one day, and the sud ... Continue reading »

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  • The problem with Gawker, and Gawker Media as a whole, is that Denton doesn't care about his employees. This is more than easily seen when actually talks about his employees. Denton cares about his PVs and his money and getting it his way, ethics or professionalism be damned!

    On the whole, most Gawker Media sites' quality of writing has been in sharp decline in stark contrast to their pageviews continually going up. With such an ongoing fresh crop of readers, very few people realize how bad the writing has actually gotten and how little anyone on a Gawker Media site actually writes anything other than being a press release-repeating, RSS-feed-regurgitating machine. It's paying the bills but it's not doing a thing for their credibility.
  • I'm not sure about that. It's true that Denton doesn't seem all that
    attached to his employees, but the sites I read regularly --
    Valleywag, Idolator, Gizmodo and Kotaku -- seem to still have more
    half-decent posts than not. It'll be interesting to see how that
    changes with the new compensation scheme.

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